| #1 – 1,000 | CHILD | 1,500 $AGE ≈ $0.15 |
| #1,001 – 1,500 | CHILD | 3,000 $AGE ≈ $0.30 |
| #1,501 – 2,500 | ADULT | 6,000 $AGE ≈ $0.60 |
| #2,501 – 3,500 | ADULT | 8,500 $AGE ≈ $0.85 |
| #3,501 – 5,000 | ELDER | 12,500 $AGE ≈ $1.25 |
| #5,001 – 5,555 | ELDER | 17,000 $AGE ≈ $1.70 |
First 2,000 mints are children. Then 2,555 adults. The final 1,000 are elders — the scarcest era, minted last, priced highest.
Portraits are drawn inside tokenURI(). No IPFS, no reveal, no server. If every website dies, every citizen still renders.
Every citizen owns an ERC-6551 wallet from mint. Its pension and belongings travel with it when it sells.
Only the 1,000 Elders vote on treasury moves. Governance you must survive into.
Retirement burns are permanent and public: "Elder #4890 retired. 946 remain." Rarity compounds for years.
Unbroken holding time is tracked on-chain and scales every payout. Provenance literally pays.